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THE still grieving father of a teen who drowned in the same lake where a body has been found, following a massive police search for a missing swimmer, can't understand how it has been allowed to happen again.

Anger engulfed Ryan Wilmott when he turned on his radio this morning to hear an Ipswich City councillor calling for the lake where his son drowned to be backfilled.

In February Mr Wilmott, an Ipswich real estate agent, waited eight days for police divers to recover the body of his 16-year-old son Duncan, who drowned in Aqua Lake while swimming with friends.

Not a day has gone by since that Mr Wilmott hasn't cried over the loss of his only son.

Today, his thoughts are with the family of a missing 21-year-old man, who he imagines would feel the same way he did while hopefully waiting for news.

Police divers found a body in the same lake this morning after the man disappeared under the water late yesterday afternoon, while swimming with a friend.

If the worst is confirmed, it will be the fourth drowning death at Aqua Lake in the past eight years.